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Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Bad disk blocks
Message-ID: <9762@brl-adm.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 14-Oct-87 09:33:16 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 14 09:33:16 1987
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I had always been told that UNIX had no means of flagging
bad blocks on a disk so that they would not be allocated.
However, I was reading the V.2 man pages on our system,
and bumped into addbad(1LM) and bdblk(1M).

We are running on PDP 11/74's with RP05 disk drives.
Has anyone out there used these functions? Will they
work on our hardware, and if so, what changes would
we need to make to the software to implement it?

Thanks for the help.